Ubuntu Security Update USN-3355-1: Spice vulnerability

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3355-1


19th July, 2017

spice vulnerability


A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 17.04
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary


Spice could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Software description

• spice - SPICE protocol client and server library

Details


Frediano Ziglio discovered that Spice incorrectly handled certain invalid
monitor configurations. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause
Spice to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute
arbitrary code.

Update instructions


The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:

Ubuntu 17.04:
libspice-server1 0.12.8-2ubuntu1.1
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
libspice-server1 0.12.6-4ubuntu0.3
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
libspice-server1 0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.5

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

After a standard system update you need to restart qemu guests to make
all the necessary changes.

References


CVE-2017-7506

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